The Platform LLC, Detroit

Developer of the year: The Platform LLC is led by Executive Chairman Peter Cummings (top left) and President and CEO Dietrich Knoer (bottom left). One of the company's projects is Baltimore Station at 6402 Woodward Ave. south of Grand Boulevard (pictured).

Developer of the year

In less than three years, Detroit-based The Platform LLC has become one of the most formidable development companies in the city. Headed up by Peter Cummings and Dietrich Knoer, it has projects underway in its New Center area home base, as well as neighborhoods outside of the greater downtown, including northwest Detroit and Islandview, among others. It has been completing projects along Woodward Avenue and West Grand Boulevard, and has its eyes set on many more developments and redevelopments in the coming years.